{"id":912,"date":"2015-01-07T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2015-01-07T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:40:58","slug":"vatican-library-digitizing-manuscript-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/vatican-library-digitizing-manuscript-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Library is digitizing its manuscript collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatlib.it\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"914\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/vatican-library-digitizing-manuscript-collection\/2015-01-07-vatican-library-digitization-project\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-07-Vatican-Library-digitization-project.png\" data-orig-size=\"732,525\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-01-07 Vatican Library digitization project\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-07-Vatican-Library-digitization-project.png\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-914\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-07-Vatican-Library-digitization-project-300x215.png\" alt=\"2015-01-07 Vatican Library digitization project\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-07-Vatican-Library-digitization-project-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-07-Vatican-Library-digitization-project.png 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Vatican Library is\u00a0putting 4,000 (yes, four thousand!) manuscripts online. This is only a fraction of the 80,000 documents that the Vatican Library has collected since its inception in 1451. What an incredible resource for calligraphers!<\/p>\n<p>The interface is good, providing views of each page with a great\u00a0zoom range. This image comes from the manuscript book labeled &#8220;Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.A.3&#8221; in the collection &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.vatlib.it\/en\/collection?s=&amp;c=10\">Archivio del Capitolo di San Pietro<\/a>&#8220;. Codices in this collection come from the library of the Chapter of St. Peter Basilica.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent hours already browsing through this wonderful resource.<\/p>\n<p>See more information about the\u00a0DigitaVaticana project in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeventchronicle.com\/study\/vatican-library-puts-4000-ancient-manuscripts-available-online-free\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican Library is\u00a0putting 4,000 (yes, four thousand!) manuscripts online. This is only a fraction of the 80,000 documents that the Vatican Library has collected since its inception in 1451. What an incredible resource for calligraphers! The interface is good, providing views of each page with a great\u00a0zoom range. This image comes from the manuscript &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/vatican-library-digitizing-manuscript-collection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vatican Library is digitizing its manuscript collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-manuscripts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-eI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}